Yellow Mountain: Like a Fairyland, Few Visitors - A Divine Experience
For me, many famous mountains and rivers are like fairylands, and traveling is like cultivating a state of mind. If tourists are densely packed like a crowd, the sense of mind and fairyland will be lost. Without this sense of mind and fairyland, where does the fairyland come from? When we went to Huangshan a few years ago, it coincided with the aftermath of the rain and the rising of clouds and mist. Walking on the wet, smooth gray stones, we had a very good mood.
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I had a very strange feeling: people say 'Huangshan return does not look at mountains, Jiuxi return does not look at water', I went twice to Huangshan and only left a blind man touching an elephant feeling. Sometimes I recall and it seems I mixed it up with Hua Shan, perhaps because I entered two different doors.
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In fact, it's not unusual to confuse Huangshan and Hua Shan. They are both granite and pine landscapes. However, due to the difference in geographical location, Huangshan has more clouds and mist, while Hua Shan has steeper terrain.
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In Huangshan, we had a very memorable night. We stayed in a room that was considered a sky-priced suite, and we lived in a four-person dormitory together with four photographers. Interestingly, all four of them had the surname Wang, so we left a legend of the 'Four Heavenly Kings of Huangshan', and we came and went for many years.
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Huangshan is a World Cultural and Natural Heritage, a world-class geological park, and a National 5A Tourist Scenic Area and National Scenic Spot. Huangshan Scenic Area is very clever, many years ago it stipulated that holding a provincial photography association certificate could free entry, so Huangshan produced many landscape photos, and it often occupied pages in national photography forums.
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Huangshan is located in Anhui Province's south, with main landscapes including 72 peaks, the main peak Lotus Peak is 1864 meters high, together with Guoding Peak and Tiandu Peak, forming three of the 36 largest peaks. Huangshan is one of China's ten most famous scenic spots, and its only mountain landscape.
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Huangshan was originally named 'Yishan' (Purple Mountain) because of its dark gray peaks and distant azure hue. Historically, it was named 'Huangshan' (Yellow Mountain) due to legends that Emperor Huang the Great once practiced alchemy there. Huangshan's representative landscapes include 'Five Wonders and Three Falls': Five Wonders: Strange Pine, Strange Rock, Cloud Sea, Hot Springs, and Snow; Three Falls: People's Line Waterfall, Baizhang Spring, and Jiulong Waterfall. Huangyingdeng (Welcoming Pine) is a symbol of the Chinese people's warm and friendly hospitality, carrying Oriental welcoming rituals, so about it, there are often national-level welcoming scene photos and paintings.
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Mr. Xu Xiashe, a travel writer from the Ming Dynasty, was impressed after visiting Huangshan and exclaimed: 'Among all the famous mountains and rivers within and outside the sea, none is like Huangshan in Huizhou. Climbing Huangshan, there is no mountain in the world that can compare, it's amazing!' This kind of sighing-in-appreciating-the-view evaluation has led subsequent generations to flock to it.
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Huangshan Scenic Area is about 1200 square kilometers large, which gives people a sense of 'blind man touching an elephant'. It's not surprising that visitors have a feeling of 'blind man touching an elephant'. The Huangshan Scenic Area is 160.6 square kilometers, starting from Yellow Lion to Xiaolingjiao, north to Erlong Bridge, south to Tangkou Town, divided into nine management districts: Wenquan, Yungui, Yipin, Beihai, Song Valley, Diaohouzhi, Fangxi, Yanghu, and Fuguo. A national-level photographer based in Huangshan led our team. In the digital age, he still insisted on using film to shoot, and then converted to digital. He produced many classic Huangshan photos. As for us passers-by, we shouldn't have unrealistic fantasies.
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The monkeys in Huangshan left a deep impression on me. They had a naive and unrestrained appearance, and when you aimed the camera at them, they would often slowly get up to give you a back view. When you helplessly turned around, they were still there.
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